Cellar pics

[hotwine]

Not being nosey at all.<P>The cellar was here when we bought the house in '87. The original owner was a bit of a survivalist, and had built this thing as a bomb shelter. It's of heavily-reinforced concrete with two through-the-roof air vents, one of which I've plugged with insulation and the other is used as conduit to connect the evaporator unit inside with the roof-mounted condenser (all of that was done by a contractor just a few years ago). The cellar is set in bedrock only about three feet - as far as the owner was able to dig by hand - so there's three feet of it above ground level.<P>The clear bottles are of Ozarka Spring Water. Since the cellar is in the backyard (about 60 yds behind the house), I keep a few bottles of water in there so I can duck into the cellar to cool off on hot summer afternoons. <P>The jugs contain homemade wine made from local mustang grapes back 20-odd years ago... think the oldest is marked 1980. Some were of my doing, some by D's late uncle (his was always much better than mine).<P>Empty racks have all been filled and most of the plonk has been removed. Most, but not all. Most of the boxes are gone now too. Looks like the only good stuff visible is some Fiefs de Lagrange, below the evaporator.<P>Will take some pics to illustrate current status....<p>[This message has been edited by hotwine (edited 03-21-2007).]